> One of those mostly boring bits of plumbing that has been left to professionals throughout the entire 50 years of my life - and they're trying to wreck it. T

> One of those mostly boring bits of plumbing that has been left to professionals throughout the entire 50 years of my life - and they're trying to wreck it. There is even a more boring and obscure bit of plumbing, the Treasury payment system, that they/DOGE went after last year: * https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/musks-doge-clashes-with-treasury-over-access-to-payment-system-report-says/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/musks-doge-clash... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42904200 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42904200 * https://hn.algolia.com/?q=treasury+payment+system https://hn.algolia.com/?q=treasury+payment+system Every knee must (forced to) bend.